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Brian Donlevy
Known for: ActingBrian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Ulster-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom stated that "any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".
Filmography 45
Beau Geste
as Sergeant Markoff 
Jesse James
as Barshee 
Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet 
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan 
Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo 
Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass 
Destry Rides Again
as Kent 
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass 
Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana 
Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau 
The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual 
In Old Chicago
as Gil Warren 
Canyon Passage
as George Camrose 
The Big Combo
as Joe McClure 
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand 
Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre 
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3 
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda 
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig 
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill 
When the Daltons Rode
as Grat Dalton 
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Governor McGinty 
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson 
Impact
as Walter Williams 
The Virginian
as Trampas 
Allegheny Uprising
as Ralph Callendar 
Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner 
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage 
Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill 
Waco
as Ace Ross 
Barbary Coast
as Knuckles Jacoby 
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith 
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold 
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee 
Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts 
Billy the Kid
as Jim Sherwood 
The Great McGinty
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty 
Nightmare
as Daniel Shane 
Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson 
Strike Me Pink
as Vance 
A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn 
Battle of Broadway
as Chesty Webb 
Gentlemen of the Press
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited) 
Pit Stop
as Grant Willard